Commentary complaints thread

[BoyBrumby]

Yeah they'll have loads of producers in their earpieces telling them to hype things up and keep talking. Doesn't take away from the fact that what they actually say is usually utter balls mind you.

As with so much of the contemporary malaise, the top tips page from Viz has the definitive word on the problem:

Link.

 

[wpdavid]

As with so much of the contemporary malaise, the top tips page from Viz has the definitive word on the problem:

Link.

The bit about commercial radio is even better imo.

 

[wpdavid]

I never rated Motson. I always assumed he gained his good reputation before I was born, because nobody really rates him now. But even in his confused old man years he was still above average for the current crop of BBC/ITV leads.

Perhaps the Beeb viewed Motson as a safer pair of hands than the more variable Davies. I never liked his habit of sounding loudly indignant when someone did something unexpected. And his prescripted one-liners, as I said before, were horrible. The one exception was the final act in the brilliant France/Portugal semi-final in the 1984 euros, where he genuinely became excited at Platini's last gasp winner and spoke for most of us about having 'not seen a game like this for years'. It wasn't just the words, but his genuine sense of excitement that appealed to me. But I don't think he did anything like that again.

 

[Uppercut]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1407438156107026439

I thought this was spot on, his commentary on the Modric goal was great. Also really gets to what’s wrong with the English commentary.

 

[Howe_zat]

There's some consensus showing on this.

 

[sledger]

Unnecessary use of "that" is bugging me today

E.g. "in that midfield" and "on that right hand side"

 

[wpdavid]

It's really annoying, bu

Unnecessary use of "that" is bugging me today

E.g. "in that midfield" and "on that right hand side"

It is annoying, but so many commentators do it nowadays.

 

[sledger]

It's really annoying, bu
It is annoying, but so many commentators do it nowadays.

Yeah true, I'm just noticing it more today for some reason. Better than Glenn Hoddle's use of "them" tbh. "Them players", "them passes" etc.

 

[sledger]

"That challenge was a little bit... agricultural"

:S

 

[Uppercut]

Italy have spent this entire game playing the most open, beautiful passing football of the whole tournament and the commentators are banging on about how much they love defending. Strip away the stereotypes and it’s just pure diarrhoea.

 

[sledger]

Italy have spent this entire game playing the most open, beautiful passing football of the whole tournament and the commentators are banging on about how much they love defending. Strip away the stereotypes and it’s just pure diarrhoea.

The inverse is again also true. Brazil teams over the last 10-20 years have at various points been set up to be thuggery incarnate, and the Comms still go on about channeling Rivelinho or whoever.

 

[Furball]

'I don't think that (Belotti being hit in the face) is that serious.'

Camera pans to him and he's got a black eye coming on.

 

[Furball]

The inverse is again also true. Brazil teams over the last 10-20 years have at various points been set up to be thuggery incarnate, and the Comms still go on about channeling Rivelinho or whoever.

That was the main reason I found them getting smashed 7-1 by Germany so funny after they kicked **** out of the Colombians in the quarter finals.

 

[sledger]

"Shakespeare's most famous question hangs over the stadium"

**** off ****

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

Danny Murphy is so consistently wrong about really basic stuff that I’m starting to worry about his eyesight.

I honestly had never noticed how true this is before reading this comment. Murphy is so bland I guess I hadn't been processing what he was actually saying. But ever since UC pointed this out I've noticed it every game he's been on commentary.

 

[Uppercut]

Matterface clearly isn’t much of a football fan and it makes his commentary so jarring. Gets excited at all the wrong times.

 

[Furball]

Matterface clearly isn’t much of a football fan and it makes his commentary so jarring. Gets excited at all the wrong times.

He seems to commentate a couple of seconds behind the action, it's almost as if there's an audio delay at times.

 

[sledger]

He's just so unspeakably poor

Love how he told everyone to go out and do whatever they liked to celebrate, only to then retract and say "within restrictions"

Obviously got yelled at by a producer in his headset

 

[Lillian Thomson]

He also said we deserve it after all we've been through in the past 18 months. Like the pandemic isn't global.

 

[Howe_zat]

He's just so unspeakably poor

Love how he told everyone to go out and do whatever they liked to celebrate, only to then retract and say "within restrictions"

Obviously got yelled at by a producer in his headset

I'm glad it wasn't just me hearing things, that might be the worst piece of sports commentary I've ever heard that wasn't from Shane Warne